The historical focus in research and policy on forest restoration and temperate ecosystems has created misunderstandings for the restoration of tropical and subtropical old‐growth grassy biomes (TGB). Such misconceptions have detrimental consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human livelihoods in woodlands, savannas, and grasslands worldwide. Here, we demystify TGB restoration myths to promote a positive agenda to increase the likelihood of success of ambitious landscape‐scale restoration goals of nonforest ecosystems. The 10 TGB restoration myths are: (1) grasslands originate from degraded forests, (2) tree cover is a reliable indicator of habitat quality, (3) planting trees is always good for biodiversity and ecosystem services, (4) grasslands are biodiversity‐poor and provide few ecosystem services, (5) enhancing plant nutrition is needed in restoration, (6) disturbance is detrimental, (7) techniques used to restore temperate grasslands also work for TGB, (8) grasslands represent early stages of forest succession, (9) grassland restoration is only about grasses, and (10) grassland restoration is fast. By demystifying TGB restoration, we hope that policymakers, scientists, and restorationists come to understand and embrace the value of these ecosystems and are motivated to establish policies, standards, indicators, and techniques that enhance the success of TGB restoration. We must abandon misperceptions and misunderstandings of TGB ecology that result in ill‐conceived policies and build an informed and compelling global ecosystem restoration agenda that maintains and improves the well‐being of all inhabitants of grassy biomes.

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神话般的热带草丛生物恢复

对森林恢复和温带生态系统的研究和政策的历史重点已经为恢复热带和亚热带老生长草丛（TGB）造成了误解。这种误解对全世界的林地，热带稀树草原和草原的生物多样性，生态系统服务和人类生计造成不利影响。在这里，我们揭开了TGB恢复神话的神秘面纱，以促进积极的议程，以增加成功实现非森林生态系统雄心勃勃的景观尺度恢复目标的可能性。TGB恢复的10个神话是：（1）草地是退化的森林，（2）树木的覆盖是栖息地质量的可靠指标，（3）植树总是有益于生物多样性和生态系统服务，（4）草地是生物多样性-贫穷，几乎没有生态系统服务 （5）恢复过程中需要增强植物营养，（6）破坏是有害的，（7）用于恢复温带草原的技术也适用于TGB，（8）草地代表森林演替的早期，（9）仅恢复草地（10）草地恢复速度很快。通过揭开TGB恢复神秘的面纱，我们希望政策制定者，科学家和恢复主义者能够理解并拥护这些生态系统的价值，并有动力建立能够提高TGB恢复成功性的政策，标准，指标和技术。我们必须摒弃对TGB生态的误解和误解，这些误解和误解会导致政策制定不当，并建立一个知情且引人注目的全球生态系统恢复议程，以维持和改善所有草丛生物群落居民的福祉。